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Children’s lives can be transformed at the annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances in Berkeley. Years later, careers may even bloom out of the intensive experience.

Casablanca may be the most popular movie ever made in old Hollywood. It has everything — a great story, stars, script — and one of the most memorable scores of the period. This Friday, the S.F. Symphony performs the magical score synched to the film itself.

The Bay Area has always been the home of musicians who are comfortable in more than one musical tradition. At Seventh Avenue Performances this weekend, you can find Escalay (Water Wheel), a group that combines classical Arabic repertoire with fusion jazz.

Lamplighters Musical Theatre has taken steps to connecting with larger audiences. The company has booked the revival of the delightful 2007 production of H.M.S. Pinafore, the natural choice to introduce audiences to the “canon.”

Great music and dance, food and wine, beautiful vistas: who could ask for anything more than what Napa’s Festival del Sole provides?

Carmel Bach’s new director, Paul Goodwin, leads a powerful “rethink” of Bach’s St. John Passion that won the audience over.

Young singers in American Bach Soloists’ summer academy come up against the limits of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, with varying success.

A Jennifer Higdon work infallibly delights, on this new Atlanta Symphony Orchestra CD, even without its live-concert visuals.

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu and soprano Christina Major lend their gifts to a strong program by the long-admired Midsummer Mozart Festival.